Forth Valley College – Falkirk Campus by Reiach and Hall Architects has won the Higher Education prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards
Yorkton Workshops revamp wins Refurb category in AJ Architecture Awards 2021
Yorkton Workshops by Cassion Castle Architects with Pearson Lloyd has won the Refurb prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards
Exclusive: Government appoints new chief architect
Sarah Allan, the former managing director of small sites developer Solidspace, has been appointed to replace Andy von Bradsky as the government’s head of architecture
Typical architect generates ‘162 American lifestyles’ worth of carbon emissions
An architect who creates just three typical buildings over their career will be responsible for carbon emissions equivalent to the lifetime emissions of 162 typical Americans, the COP26 summit in Glasgow has been told
Architects, are your climate pledges just ‘blah blah blah’?
As the proposed bulldozing of the AJ’s offices shows, nowhere is greenwash in architecture stronger than in plans for ‘sustainable’ architecture that begin with demolition, argues Will Hurst
ACME’s Dublin regeneration project will preserve Easter Rising’s bullet holes
Regeneration plans for a key site in Dublin will incorporate bullet holes from the 1916 Easter Rising, it has emerged
Eric Parry’s Justice Quarter ‘demolition job’ slammed by chief climate adviser
Eric Parry’s planned Justice Quarter in the City of London has come under fire after analysis suggested its construction would pump tens of thousands more tonnes of Co2 into the atmosphere compared with retrofitting existing buildings
Nevermind the net zero targets, what’s the plan Boris?
With the clock ticking on the climate crisis, green Tories are beginning to voice frustration at the lack of detailed policy, Will Hurst found in Manchester
Allford: ‘Support our urgent message to governments ahead of COP26’
RIBA president Simon Allford has called on practices to mobilise behind a major built environment report published by the institute and Architects Declare ahead of next month’s global climate summit
Michael Gove condemns ‘ugly’ steel and concrete buildings
Housing secretary Michael Gove has linked ugly buildings to embodied carbon in a sign that future planning reforms may seek to limit the use of steel and concrete